Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003 - 4:22 p.m.
Well, arrived last nite (this morning actually)in the Republic after a hellacious time with my plane. First I was told that the flight would be delayed by weather-it would land at 5:40, depart at 6:20. So, at 4:30 I head out to grab a bite to eat. Met this French transfer student (Guilleum-sorry for the spelling)that was lugging around a guitar and going to Nashville and we chatted over a beer about music.
I head back to the terminal, it's 5:30, I figure the plane won't be there for 10 more minutes. WRONG! It's in final boarding. So I get on board we pull away from the terminal and are told that because of weather in Dallas we have to wait a half an hour. We do, and then some. We finally get clearance but are at the wrong runway. SOOOO, we turn around go to another runway at which point our flight plan gets cancelled so they have to file another one. We leave around 7:20pm.
Flight is fine and the flashing thunderheads in the sky look awesome. We land around 9:20 and expect to be in around 10. Wrong again. There is no terminal open for us so we sit, on the tarmac, with minimal air conditioning for another 3.5 hours. I finally get to my friends house after picking up the rental car at 2am. I need to be up at 6am to visit with some doctors for my day job.
Rolled out of bed sleep deprived but not too bad. Meetings go great though I crushed my sun glasses so I had to buy another pair at Walgreens.
It was so hot and humid, when I came out of the hospital meetings my palm pilot and cell phone fogged over!!!
Still need to find a sound system for the weekend.
Gonna try and find a place that has a viewing of Mars tonite!! Woohooo!!!
The pool is calling.....
